arXiv:2606. 11762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in language understanding, reasoning, and generation, sparking growing interest in their creative potential.
By Min Sen Tan, Zachary Kit Chun Choy, Syed Ali Redha Alsagoff, Nadya Yuki Wangsajaya, Mohor Banerjee, Swaagat Bikash Saikia, Alvin Chan
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in language understanding, reasoning, and generation, sparking growing interest in their creative potential. Realizing this potential requires systematic and scalable methods for evaluating creativity across diverse tasks.
arXiv:2605. 10574v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As artificial intelligence advances, models are not improving uniformly.
By Shray Mathur, J. Anibal Boscoboinik, Esther H. R. Tsai, Kevin G. Yager
arXiv:2608. 07460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively impacting tasks that explicitly require creativity (e.
By Ananya Sahu, Mohit Bansal, Elias Stengel-Eskin
arXiv:2606. 07226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human creativity has emerged as a critical competency in the era of large language models.
By Tongzhou Yu, Mingjia Li, Hong Qian, Wenkai Wang, Zongbao Zhang, Yaoyu Jiang, Xiangfeng Wang, Aimin Zhou, Jiajun Guo
arXiv:2603. 19087v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Creativity is the ability to come up with novel ideas, a capacity crucial for human development and flourishing.
By Qiawen Ella Liu, Marina Dubova, Henry Conklin, Takumi Harada, Thomas L. Griffiths
arXiv:2607. 01433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Divergent thinking is a crucial aspect of creativity, yet large language models (LLMs) tend to consistently generate similar responses to open-ended questions, in what has been termed the artificial hivemind effect.
By Samuel Schapiro, Core Francisco Park, Felix Sosa, Lav R. Varshney
arXiv:2604. 03374v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Creative problem-solving requires combining multiple cognitive abilities, including logical reasoning, lateral thinking, analogy-making, and commonsense knowledge, to discover insights that connect seemingly unrelated pieces of information.
By Mete Ismayilzada, Renqing Cuomao, Daniil Yurshevich, Anna Sotnikova, Lonneke van der Plas, Antoine Bosselut
arXiv:2608. 07243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models are often evaluated through singular artifacts, whereas human creativity typically emerges through iterative generation, appraisal, and refinement.
By Rens Anderson, Tessa Verhoef, Amirhossein Zohrehvand
arXiv:2608. 06501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Creative capabilities of MLLMs matter in design, communication, education, and human--AI collaboration, yet remain difficult to evaluate because explicit targets and reward signals are scarce compared with accuracy-oriented tasks.
By Ming Wang, Yuqing Zhang, Tingna Xie, Xiangju Li, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang
arXiv:2603. 11863v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The saturation of high-quality pre-training data has shifted research focus toward evolutionary systems capable of continuously generating novel artifacts, leading to the success of AlphaEvolve.
By Zi-Han Wang, Lam Nguyen, Zhengyang Zhao, Mengyue Yang, Chengwei Qin, Yujiu Yang, Linyi Yang
Creativity is a complex cognitive ability that relies on knowledge organisation and retrieval from semantic memory. Yet most research uses a single task to measure it, capturing only a fraction of this complexity.